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The Way We Live Now: With David Suchet, Matthew Macfadyen, Cillian Murphy, Paloma Baeza. Augustus Melmotte is a European-born city financier whose background is as mysterious as his business. Only weeks after his arrival in London, he announced a new venture and promises instant fortune.
The American Senator. The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope, published in London in 1875 after first appearing in serialised form. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts. The novel is Trollope's longest, comprising 100 chapters, and is particularly rich in sub-plot.
Jul 14, 2014 · 4.08. 13,352 ratings1,202 reviews. Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel, The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of nineteenth-century London and a bold indictment of the new power of speculative finance in English life. The story concerns Augustus Melmotte, a French swindler and scoundrel, and his ...
The Way We Live Now, novel by Anthony Trollope, published serially in 1874–75 and in book form in 1875. This satire of Victorian society was one of Trollope’s later and more highly regarded works. The novel chronicles the fleeting fame of Augustus Melmotte, a villainous financier of obscure origins.
Jun 10, 2002 · The Way We Live Now was first published in twenty monthly parts from February, 1874, to September, 1875, and in book form by Chapman and Hall in 1875. Both the monthly parts and the Chapman and Hall first edition contained the forty illustrations included in this e-book.
The Way We Live Now. By Anthony Trollope. Best Seller. Part of Modern Library Classics. Category: Classic Fiction | Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction. Ebook $3.99. Nov 01, 2000| ISBN 9780679642039. Buy. Ebook. Nov 01, 2000 | ISBN 9780679642039. Buy from Other Retailers: Ebook.
The Way We Live Now—regarded by many as Anthony Trollope’s greatest novel—encompasses in its broad scope much of the business, political, social, and literary life of 1870s London.
